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    In March of the 22nd year of Zhenguan, the fleet heading south to Australia was finally ready. On a day with good sea conditions, this fleet composed entirely of steamships quietly left Keelung and passed through Luzon and the Spice Islands.  After half a month of sailing, they finally arrived at the northern tip of Australia in early April, which is where Lu Wan and the others first landed in Australia.

    However, compared to the desolation when Lu Wan and the others landed, a city has been built in this area now. The entire city still follows the traditional Central Plains city style. However, because this place already belongs to the southern hemisphere, the original Central Plains city faces north and south.  The layout is just reversed, with the south facing north, which may seem a bit strange to those who are new here.

    The name of this city is Moli City. This is mainly to commemorate the Moli tribe living on Sunset Island that provided great help to Lu Wan and the others when Lu Wan and the others landed. Later, after the gold diggers arrived,  The Moli people on the island are also very friendly to these gold diggers. When the Han people were panning for gold here, many people from the Moli tribe acted as guides and taught the Han people to adapt to the environment here. It can be said that they are the city of Moli.  made a huge contribution to its development.

    It was Mo Libu's outstanding performance, coupled with Li Min's desire to promote in Australia that the Han people came for peace and could coexist peacefully with the local aborigines, so he finally decided to build this Han people's first place in Australia.  A city was named Moli City to commemorate the friendship between the Han people and the Australian Aboriginals.

    The news of Li Min's arrival had already been notified to the lord of Moli City. The current lord's name is Lu Li, who is from the Fan Yang Lu clan. Li Min cut off the Fan Yang Lu clan's financial path, and as a result, they had to ask Li Min for help.  After being stunned, Li Min finally gave them a way out.  The Lu family was introduced to the newly developed Taiwan. Later, with the prosperity of Taiwan, the Lu family shifted its focus from the Tang Dynasty to Taiwan. Many of the Lu family members entered the Qi Palace as officials, and Lu Li was the best among them.  One, at only forty years old, became the lord of a city, and his future prospects are limitless.

    Lu Li knew that Li Min and Li Ke didn't want to make any noise this time, and Moli City was only their first stop, and they would leave immediately after the ship's supplies were completed.  Therefore, Lu Li did not greet them with any fanfare. He just prepared a place to live, and then he took a few people to take Li Min and his party to the city to rest.

    Li Min was sitting on the carriage driving to his residence, but he was observing the situation outside through the window, and saw many pedestrians on the streets of Moli City.  And most of them are Han Chinese, and occasionally you can see some local natives.  All the Moli tribe have now moved to Moli City and have begun to receive Chinese education. Especially the children of the Moli tribe have been learning Chinese since childhood. Apart from their skin color and appearance, they are almost the same as Han children.

    ? Another thing worth mentioning is.  Not all the local natives Li Min saw in the city were from the Moli tribe, but quite a few natives from other tribes. After seeing the strength of the Han people, they all expressed their respect, so these people and the Moli tribe  Same as the Li clan.  They became one of the first foreign races ruled by Li Zhi in Australia, and as long as they passed a certain Chinese language test, they could gain the right to enter Han cities.

    Although Moli City is the first city established by Li Min in Australia, it is actually not large in scale.  The number of Han people is only about 7,000, and including the local natives, it is only just over 10,000.  If it were placed in Taiwan or Datang, I'm afraid even a county would be bigger than it. However, because there are gold mines here, the city looks very wealthy, and the buildings in the city are also very neat and elegant. There are patrolling policemen passing by on the streets from time to time.  , making the streets orderly. From this, it can be seen that Lu Li's governance ability is quite good.

    Li Min poked his head and observed the situation in Moli City for a while, then turned back and smiled at Lu Li who was sitting next to him: "Lu Li, how is the gold mining in Moli City going now? And follow me this time  The workers who came together will also build a steel factory in Moli City, are you all ready?"

    Lu Li, who was in the prime of his life, immediately replied: "Your Highness, there are a total of seventy-eight gold mines being mined in Moli City. Among them, eleven large gold mines are in the hands of the government, and the rest are some.  Among the privately mined gold mines, there are fewer large-scale gold mines and most of them are small and medium-sized gold mines. Most of these gold mines use slaves transported from Southeast Asia and eastern Australia for mining. Last year¡¯s annual output reached two tons.  , and there is considerable room for growth.¡±

    At this point, Lu Li paused for a moment, and then continued: "As for building a steel plant, we have already made preparations. Not far from the gold mine south of Moli City, a gold mine with astonishing reserves was discovered there.  Rich iron ore, but because of government manpower issues, we decided to contract the mining of iron ore to private individuals. We have now signed agreements with several major mine owners, and the other parties have also organized slaves to mine. In addition, the steel plant has also  in ?It is under construction, but there is still some manpower shortage. These workers can just supplement it, and it is estimated that it will be put into production by the end of this year at the latest.  "

    Hearing Lu Li's words, Li Min nodded with satisfaction. As the application of steam engines becomes more and more widespread, especially the promotion of steam ships, Taiwan's demand for steel has skyrocketed. Although several steel plants in South Korea have increased production several times  , but it still could not meet the demand, so Li Min built several steel bases in Luzon and Linyi in the past few years, but in the end he still had to import some steel from Datang to meet the demand.  However, once Australian steel plants officially start production, they should be able to get rid of the demand for Datang Steel.

    Next, Li Min asked about Moli City's agriculture, fishing industry and food processing industry. These three industries are the most important economic pillars of Moli City besides mining, so they are also very popular with Li Min.  importance, Lu Li also answered this one by one.

    That night, Li Min rested at the residence arranged by Lu Li for them. During dinner, Li Min and Li Ke finally ate the Australian giant lobster that they had been admiring for a long time. This kind of lobster is very large and usually  About two kilograms, clean and steam directly, then cut open the carapace to take out the crystalline shrimp meat inside, and eat it with the prepared sauce. It tastes extremely delicious.

    All these lobsters are transported from the east coast of Australia by steamships. In the past, if you wanted to eat lobsters in Moli City, you would usually transport them by sailing boats. As a result, most of them would die on the road. Now it is much faster to use steamships.  The fact that it can be transported here alive also makes the price much cheaper. I even heard that some people are planning to transport this kind of lobster alive to Taiwan, but unfortunately no one has succeeded yet.

    Li Min originally planned to leave Moli City the next day. After all, this is not the core area of ??Australia. Most of the Han people who migrated to Australia live in the southeastern coastal areas, where the climate is warm and pleasant, and precipitation is relatively abundant.  A large amount of arable land can be reclaimed, which is the essence of Australia.

    However, Li Ke proposed to visit the gold mine south of Moli City, and Gao Yang and Qinghe were also very curious about this, because although they had seen a lot of gold, they never knew how gold was mined?

    If Li Ke went alone, Li Min would not object, but the female family members of Qinghe could not, because as far as he knew, slaves in gold mines were usually naked when mining gold, so in the end Li Min only  They were arranged to go to a gold smelting plant and visit the process of smelting gold into gold nuggets.

    But when Li Min and the others returned to the city, a very interesting thing happened.  Because it was still early for them to return to the city, Gao Yang and Qinghe went to Moli City to play together. Unexpectedly, they met someone selling nugget gold, and they only wanted one thousand guan.

    Qinghe and Gao Yang had long heard that someone had discovered nugget gold in Australia. In addition, they saw that the nugget gold sold by the other party had a strange shape and looked muddy and earthy. There were even a few barbarians dressed as businessmen around to grab it.  He wanted to pay for it, which made Gao Yang's mind go crazy, so he bought it at double the price, and even took it back to his residence to show off to Li Min and Li Ke.

    However, Li Min soon discovered that the gold nugget should be a fake made by humans. At first, Gao Yang didn't believe it, but later he asked someone to take a look, and the other person was very sure that it was definitely a fake.

    This made Gao Yang extremely angry, and Lu Li was also alarmed, but his expression was even worse than Gao Yang's. After all, he was managing this place, and now there was a liar, and he even cheated the princess. This was simply  Slap him in the face.

    So that afternoon, all the official forces of the entire Moli City were mobilized to search the entire Moli City. As a result, they quickly found this group of scammers. Among them, the man who sold gold nuggets was a Han Chinese and was also the leader of this group of scammers.  The barbarians who raised the price were his accomplices. Not only did they help with the sales, they were also responsible for making fake gold nuggets. They had even deceived three or four people before.

    Needless to say, what happened to this group of swindlers was that they were all sent to work in the gold mines by Lu Li. Gao Yang also got back the money he had defrauded, which finally made her relieved.  In addition, this incident also sounded a warning to Li Min. In newly occupied overseas territories like Australia, the security aspect still needs to be strengthened.

    After experiencing the counterfeit incident, Li Min's fleet left Moli City as scheduled on the third day. When they arrived at the Cape York Peninsula in later generations, which is now called the Jianjiao Peninsula by the Han people, they found a new building called Jianjiao Peninsula there.  The city of Cape Port stopped for a while, adding coal and water and then bypassed the Zlatni Peninsula. But at this time, what appeared in front of them was one of the most beautiful scenery in Australia, and it is also a unique scenic spot in the world!  (To be continued)
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